If you're a Java developer, you know that there are several options available for building, compiling and packaging your code. Most IDEs will build code for you. You can also compile code on the ...

In any substantial software engineering project, the build tool is one of the most important parts of the developer’s toolkit. Without a solid build tool, the process of compiling, packaging, and ...

Ant is a Java- and XML-based build tool from Apache's Jakarta project. Ant has the capacity to move files around using a very rich set of include/exclude directives and can move files via FTP. Peter ...

In the early days of Java application development, life was pretty simple. You would write your classes, compile them, put them in a package and send them off. Then came JAR files, an easier way of ...

There are numerous ways in which Groovy can be applied to build Java-based applications. These building approaches range from invoking commands like javac and jar directly from Groovy code to ...

In the post AntBuilder: Groovy Meets Ant, I talked about how AntBuilder combines the best of Ant with Groovy. The Groovy Almanac post Using Ant build.xml and Antbuilder demonstrates how easy it is to ...